{"id":676,"date":"2006-02-08T15:22:51","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T23:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/it_was_a_privilege_and_a_gift_to_spend_two_years_traveling_this_country.html"},"modified":"2006-02-08T15:22:51","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T23:22:51","slug":"it_was_a_privil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/it_was_a_privil.html","title":{"rendered":"It Was A Privilege And A Gift To Spend Two Years Traveling This Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nymetro.com\/news\/intelligencer\/15748\/index.html\">This reminds me<\/a> why I will never contribute money to any political campaign:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Campaign filings reveal some five-star politico-ing this year. Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s attorney-general campaign has paid for three purchases at Bergdorf&#8217;s Fifth Avenue store, along with a trip to Jamaica&#8217;s Pegasus resort, a stop at Bliss spa, and a stay at Beverly Hills&#8217; chic Avalon Hotel. . . . Eliot Spitzer&#8217;s filings suggest the Wall Street sheriff has a banker&#8217;s taste: The gubernatorial hopeful has stayed at the Four Seasons in Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco, where rooms go for around $500 a night . . . A.G. aspirant Mark Green, who at the time expenses were filed had raised far less than Spitzer or Cuomo, spent accordingly: One exotic purchase was made at Sephora. Spokesman Corey Johnson says Green wasn&#8217;t being vain; he&#8217;d bought bottles of Cumming (the fragrance named after Alan) for two men who chaired a gay fund-raiser at Green&#8217;s home.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This reminds me why I will never contribute money to any political campaign: Campaign filings reveal some five-star politico-ing this year. Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s attorney-general campaign has paid for three purchases at Bergdorf&#8217;s Fifth Avenue store, along with a trip to Jamaica&#8217;s Pegasus resort, a stop at Bliss spa, and a stay at Beverly Hills&#8217; chic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}